Thursday, May 09, 2013

Paarde-Deux

The long drought in between Paardebloem releases has finally come to an
end and this year we get a double-whammy of dandelion delightfulness!

If your new here or are unfamiliar, Paardebloem (Flemish for dandelion)
was originally conceived of in 2009, by RedRock's "Beer Yogi", Kevin
Templin & New Belgium Brewing's Chris McCombs.

In 2009 the beer world experienced a bit of a hop shortage. Popular hop
varietals were tough to get or were becoming pricier than normal.
Paardebloem was born from a need to brew convention beers with old world
techniques. One of those techniques was using dandelion greens for
bittering.

The beer was made, New Belgium called their version Dandelion Ale & RedRock went with Paardebloem. That wasn't the only difference, RR's went
into barrels with funky bugs for many months & NB's was Kegged
fresh. Four years later we have two different blended beers that are the
same... Makes sense?.... Right?

This evening (after 6pm) at all RedRock locations you'll be able to
sample both versions of the collaborative beer that's finally a true
collaboration. New Belgiam's is part of their popular Lips of Faith
series & will be exclusively sold at RedRock for "in house"
consumption. This is the first time a NB beer has been for sale legally
in Utah. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come.

Don't be that Douche or Douchette that misses out on this great thing that's happening in right in your own backyard or you'll be sad lil' beer geeks when they're gone.